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Acronis Drive Monitor

Free tool alerts you about the safety of your data
We all depend on instant access to data stored on our hard drives buried
inside PC laptops, workstations and servers but those disks are vulnerable to
severe failures that can cause you to lose business and personal data. With so
much riding on the reliability of hard disks, Acronis provides an early warning
system Acronis Drive Monitor that can make all the difference between the
data you have and the data you could potentially lose. This free, downloadable
software application comes to you from Acronis, the leader in affordable,
scalable, backup, disaster recovery and security solutions.

Monitors disk health

Acronis Drive Monitor checks three categories:
State and health of physical drive (including temperature, seek error rate,
spin-up time and more than 20 other indicators) via a disk-resident monitoring
function called S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
is presented in a understable form. Acronis Drive Monitor also supports other
storage, such as non-S.M.A.R.T.-compatible RAID systems, via scripts (see
Figure 1).
Critical events may indicate increased risk of unexpected data loss. Unlike most
disk monitoring utilities that depend wholly on S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, Acronis
Drive Monitor also monitors certain events that may indicate an increased risk
for data safety, even when S.M.A.R.T. output data shows no abnormalities.
These events include: (1) logical file system corruptions on NTFS and FAT file
systems, (2) Corruption of dynamic disk logical structure, (3) Failed read or write
operations that might indicate faulty hardware or drivers, (4) Volume Shadow
Copy service failures and (5) Other similar events (see Figure 2, next page).
Unless noticed early, these problems may become more severe and lead to
partial or complete data loss. Acronis Drive Monitor checks for such messages
and can provide early warnings in order that preventive actions can be taken.

Features and benefits

Automatically checks for disk problems
Works on any Windows PC, workstation
or server.
Monitors event logs
Flags events that may indicate that data
is in danger so you can back it up.
Receive alerts immediately
Sends an email, and displays a message
on the Windows taskbar when it uncovers
a disk-related problem.
Weekly status reports
Shows the electromechanical health of
all your drives in one report.
Can support RAID drives too
Scripting allows you to monitor RAID
controllers not using S.M.A.R.T.
monitoring technology. An Acronis forum
acts as a clearinghouse for users to share
scripts.
Three kinds of support
An Acronis forum, a knowledge base with
dozens of articles and a built-in help
function are available for this easy-to-use
software application.

State of disk backups for Acronis Drive Monitor users who also already use
Acronis home or business products, such as Acronis True Image Home 2010,
Acronis Backup and Security 2010 and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, Acronis
Drive Monitor will alert the user if the latest backup has failed or if a backup has
not been created for a while. Otherwise, users will be automatically reminded of
the need for a backup whenever a potential hard drive problem is detected.
Figure 1
Disk health monitors SMART parameters and displays
status.

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Acronis Drive Monitor can help you now

Acronis Drive Monitor reminds commercial IT
administrators and home PC users how much they depend
on disk-resident data and encourages them to secure it by
backing it up.
Acronis Drive Monitor reports any deviations from normal
operation to users in the form of a notification message
on the task bar or email, enabling users to check that
data contained on suspect devices is safely backed up
(see Figure 3). Moreover, it gives them an opportunity to
replace affected drives prior to a potential total failure.

Figure 2: Critical events monitoring creates log and send alerts.

The tool displays the status of recent backups for all disks
being monitored and notifies users if a backup has not
been performed for a while (see Figure 4).
Integrated with Acronis Home and Business products for
greater data safety
Users of Acronis True Image Home 2010 and Acronis
Backup and Security 2010 home PC backup and recovery
software and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 business
software can take advantage of Acronis Drive Monitors
ability to trigger an immediate, automated backup if any
disk shows signs of imminent failure.

Figure 3: Summary screen provides complete diagnostic status.

Supported Operating Systems

Windows XP SP2+ x32 and x64 Editions

Windows Vista all SP x32 and x64 Editions
Windows 7
Windows Server 2003 SP 2+ x32 and x64 Editions
Windows Server 2008 all SP x32 and x64 Editions

Figure 4: Acronis Disk Monitor checks if backup is current.

Partners

For additional information, please visit http://www.acronis.com/

Enterprise/SMB sales:
Call +1 877 669-9749

OEM inquiries:
Call +1 650 875-7593

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